Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine
This is the order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It should not be considered completely up to date nor accurate, being based on open-source press reporting.
An updated order of battle estimate for April 23, 2023, by the Institute for the Study of War is accessible at:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 23
Russian forces in 2022
Administrative chain of command
Commanders of the various MOD armed services and branches do not have operational control over the forces. They are responsible for force development and generation. The Chiefs of the ground forces, the aerospace forces, the navy, the strategic missile forces and the airborne forces also hold the appointments of Deputy Ministers of Defence, junior to the Chief of the General Staff, who is the First Deputy Minister of Defence.
The General Staff commands and controls forces through the National Defence Management Centre (NDMC). Operational control of the forces is carried out by the five Operational-Strategic Commands - the Western, Southern, Central and Eastern Military Districts and the OSK Northern Fleet, which is their equal. The Western and the Southern Military Districts share borders with Ukraine and are directly involved in the command and control of the operations.
Pre-2022 Russian military doctrine had specified that on the outbreak of war, armed forces from non-MOD services (like Rosgvardiya) would be placed under the General Staff.
(President of the Russian Federation: Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin)
Security Council
Rosgvardiya (General of the Army Viktor Zolotov; Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Roman Gavrilov)
Federal Security Service (General of the Army Alexander Bortnikov)
Russian Border Guards (Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service and Head of the Border Service: Vladimir Kulishov)
Federal Protective Service (Director of the Federal Protective Service: General Dmitry Kochnev)
Ministry of Internal Affairs (Minister of Internal Affairs: Vladimir Kolokoltsev)
Police of Russia
Ministry of Defence (Minister of Defence: General of the Army Sergei Shoigu)
Russian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff: General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Nikolay Bogdanovsky); National Defense Management Center (Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev)
GRU (Director: Admiral Igor Kostyukov)
8th Directorate - Directorate Spetsnaz (Spetsnaz GRU)
Russian Ground Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces and Deputy Minister of Defence: General of the Army Oleg Salyukov)
Russian Engineer Troops (Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky)
Russian Missile Troops and Artillery (Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky)
Russian Tank Troops
Russian Air Defence Troops
Russian Army Aviation
Logistical Support of the Russian Armed Forces (Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, who replaced Army General Dmitry Bulgakov in September 2022)
Russian Railway Troops
Russian Aerospace Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces and Deputy Minister of Defence: General of Army Sergey Surovikin)
Russian Air Force (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces: Lieutenant General Sergey Dronov)
Russian Airborne Forces (Vozdushno-desantnye voyska (VDV)) (Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces: Colonel-General Mikhail Teplinsky who replaced Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov in June 2022
Russian Navy (Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy and Deputy Minister of Defence: Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov)
Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy (Lieutenant General Viktor Astapov)
Russian Naval Infantry (Lieutenant General )
Russian Naval Aviation (Major-General Igor Kozhin)
Initial force groupings
Ukrainian military commentator Yuri Butusov listed the following initial March 2022 deployment of Russian/allied forces:
Southwestern Belarus grouping (blocking contingent against Ukrainian forces in Western Ukraine):
located around Brest, Luninets, Baranovichi, Osipovichi and Minsk
including forces from the Northern Fleet (200th (Arctic) Motor Rifle Brigade, 61st Guards Naval Infantry Brigade) and the VDV (76th and 98th Guards airborne divisions), estimated strength of 6–7 battalion tactical groups
Southeastern Belarus grouping (Kyiv offensive direction):
located around Vepri, Elsin, Bragin, Khainini, Rechitsya and Mozir
including forces from the 5th, 35th and 36th Combined Arms Armies, estimated strength of 7–9 battalion tactical groups
Bryansk grouping (Chernihiv offensive direction):
located around Klimovo, Klintsi, Pochep and Sevsk
including forces from the 41st Combined Arms Army and the 90th Guards Tank Division, estimated strength of 3 battalion tactical groups
Kursk – Belgorod grouping (Sumy offensive direction):
located around Tomarovka, Vesela Lopan', Zorino, Pristen', Kursk and Belgorod
including forces from the 6th and 20th combined arms armies, estimated strength of 4 battalion tactical groups
Voronezh grouping (Kharkiv offensive direction):
located around Stariy Oskol, Soloti, Valuyki, Boguchar, Pogonovo and Voronezh
including forces from the 6th Tank and 20th combined arms armies, estimated strength of 13–14 battalion tactical groups
Smolensk grouping (operational reserve of the northern front)
located around Yel'nya
including forces from the 20th and 41st combined arms armies, estimated strength of 6–7 battalion tactical groups
Rostov grouping (Donbas and eastern Sea of Azov offensive direction)
located around Rostov-on-the-Don and Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy
including forces from the 8th Combined Arms Army, estimated strength of 6 battalion tactical groups
Ukraine says the 8th CAA has operational control over the Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia and the Luhansk People's Republic People's Militia, naming them the Russian 1st and 2nd Army Corps
Crimea grouping (southern Ukraine offensive direction):
located around the Crimean Peninsula (Slavne, Dzhankoy, Novoozerne, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Oktyabrskoye, Bakhchisaray, Angarskiy, Feodosiya, Opuk)
including forces from the 58th Combined Arms Army and the Black Sea Fleet's 22nd Army Corps (810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade), estimated strength of up to 13 battalion tactical groups
Kuban grouping (operational reserve of the southern front)
located around the Kuban Peninsula (Novorossiysk, Korenovsk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar, Mol'kino and Maykop) and Stavropol
including forces from the 49th Combined Arms Army, the Black Sea Fleet's 22nd Army Corps and the VDV's 7th Guards (Mountain) Air Assault Division, estimated strength of 6 battalion tactical groups
Russian leaders 2022-23
Despite evolving Russian doctrine which specified all troops and forces operating from one Operational-Strategic Command (OSK) be placed under one commander, multiple repeated sources (Rochan Consulting, Center for Naval Analysis, British Ministry of Defence) reported that separate groupings of forces drawn from each of the four military districts, under the leadership of senior personnel from that military district, took part in the initial invasion.
President Vladimir Putin was repeatedly reported as taking a very involved stance, sometimes giving orders to field formations.
In April 2022, the invasion began to run into setbacks; Russian forces were forced to withdraw from their attempt to take Kyiv. Therefore to handle a longer war, a single coordinating senior officer was appointed.
Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov (8 April 2022 – 25 June 2022): placed in overall charge of military operations in Ukraine, effectively ending the grouping system;
Colonel General Gennady Zhidko (26 June 2022 – 7 October 2022): appointed by Vladimir Putin to the top position, replacing Dvornikov;
Army General Sergey Surovikin (8 October 2022 – 11 January 2023): previously commander of the Aerospace Forces and Army Group South, replacing Zhidko in overall command.
Russian/affiliated forces in 2023
From 12 January 2023 Army General Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of the General Staff, was appointed as commander of military operations in Ukraine, with Surovikin as his deputy.
The actual operational chain of command of the Russian military effort in Ukraine is not public, changes, and is a mix of state and non-state bodies. Personal rivalries are evident. President Vladimir Putin however remains firmly in control, sometimes micromanaging. The loose connection of various mercenary bodies and Ramzan Kadyrov's Chechens to the official command chain has been represented by placing them under headers separate to the Russian Armed Forces.
Scheduling and control of tactical fighter, ground attack, and strategic bomber "sorties" (one flight of one aircraft) is unclear.
On 18 April 2023, Russian official sources said that President Putin had held meetings in the Kherson area with several commanders. The President "..received reports from the commander of the Dnepr forces grouping, General Lieutenant Oleg Makarevich, the commander of the Vostok [Eastern] forces grouping, General Lieutenant Andrey Kuzmenko, and the deputy commander of the combined grouping, General Colonel Mikhail Teplinsky." The meetings likely took place before April 16.
(President of the Russian Federation: Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin)
Security Council
Russian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff: General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Nikolay Bogdanovsky)
National Defense Management Center (Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev)
Long Range Aviation - administratively Aerospace Forces; operationally, air operations centre of whatever description
22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division (Colonel Mykola Varpahovych)
52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment (Tupolev Tu-22M) (Colonel Oleg Timoshyn)
Mercenaries
Wagner Group (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Utkin )
DShRG Rusich (Commander: Alexey Milchakov)
Gazpromneft Security
Fakel
Plamya
Patriot
Redut
Don Brigade
Potok Battalion
Veterany Battalion
Tsar's Wolves
Uran
E.N.O.T. Corp. (Commander: Igor Mangushev )
Militias
Storm Ossetia (Commander: Aivengo Tekhov )
Alania Battalion
Hispaniola Battalion
Vladlen Tatarsky Battalion
Reserve units of the Russian Armed Forces
BARS
Chechens
Kadyrovites (Head: Colonel General Ramzan Kadyrov)
141st Motorised National Guard Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Magomed Tushayev)
North Battalion
Akhmat Special Forces
78th Motor Rifle Regiment (Sever-Akhmat) subordinate to the 42nd Motorised Rifle Division, 58th Combined Arms Army
Spetsnaz units
Clear evidence as to which Grouping of Forces these brigades belong to is not readily available.
2nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Konstantin Bushuev)
3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade
10th Spetsnaz Brigade
(Colonel Sergey Polyakov ) (formerly Lieutenant Colonel Albert Karimov )
16th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Deputy Commander Major Dmitri Vladimirovich Semenov )
24th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade
346th Spetsnaz Brigade of the Russian Special Operations Forces
Units returned to Russia:
22nd Separate Guards Spetsnaz Brigade returned from combat in 2022 following major losses.
Joint Group of Forces
Central Military District (TsVO) (Commander: Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev from 17 February 2023 (formerly Major General Alexander Linkov)
2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, CMD (Major General )
91st Headquarters Brigade
15th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Zavyalov)
92nd Rocket Artillery Brigade
385th Guards Artillery Brigade
297th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
950th Rocket Artillery Regiment
25th Combined Arms Army (Major General Andrey Seritsky)
67th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Zulfat Nigmatzyanov)
19th Tank Regiment
31st Motor Rifle Regiment (Bashkortostan)
36th Motor Rifle Regiment
37th Motorised Rifle Regiment
164th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Aleysk)
11th Tank Brigade
73rd Artillery Brigade
41st Combined Arms Army, CMD (Lieutenant General , Deputy Commander Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky )
35th Headquarters Brigade
90th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Ramil Rakhmatulovich Ibatullin)
(Colonel Andrei Zakharov )
80th Tank Regiment
239th Guards Tank Regiment
228th Motor Rifle Regiment (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Fezul Bichikaev )
400th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
55th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade
74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Alekseyevich Yershov)
120th Artillery Brigade
199th Missile Brigade
61st Anti-Aircraft Brigade
201st Military Base, CMD (original location Tajikistan)
202nd Motor Rifle Regiment
28th Pontoon Bridge Brigade
1st Mobile NBC Protection Brigade
31st Guards Air Assault Brigade VDV (Colonel Sergei Karasev )
Eastern Military District (VVO) (Lieutenant-General Andrei Kuzmenko (unconfirmed) (formerly Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov )
5th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General )
80th Command Brigade
127th Motor Rifle Division
114th Motor Rifle Regiment
143rd Motor Rifle Regiment
394th Motor Rifle Regiment
433rd Motor Rifle Regiment
218th Tank Regiment
872nd Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Fyodor Evgenievich Solovyov )
1171st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
57th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
60th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
20th Missile Brigade
305th Artillery Brigade
8th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
29th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Major General Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov)
101st Headquarters Brigade
36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov)
200th Artillery Brigade
3rd Missile Brigade
140th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
35th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General , Deputy Commander Major General Sergei Nyrkov [wounded, not returning to active duty] General-Major Sergey Goryachev, chief of staff. )
54th Headquarters Brigade
38th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Andrey Borisovich Kurbanov, Deputy Commander Major Sergey Masterov )
64th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Azatbek Asanbekovich Omurbekov, allegedly responsible for the Bucha massacre) (effectively destroyed by September 2022)
107th Rocket Artillery Brigade
165th Artillery Brigade
71st Anti-Aircraft Brigade
69th Covering Brigade
36th Combined Arms Army, EMD (Lieutenant General Valery Solodchuk, Deputy Commander Major General Andrei Anatolyevich Seritskiy, seriously wounded)
75th HQ Brigade
5th Guards Tank Brigade
37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Marat Hajibalaev ) (formerly Colonel Yuri Medvedev)
30th Artillery Brigade
103rd Rocket Brigade
35th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
26th NBC Protection Regiment
1723rd Anti-Aircraft Regiment
68th Army Corps, EMD (Lieutenant General )
18th Machine Gun Artillery Division
46th Machine Gun Artillery Regiment
49th Machine Gun Artillery Regiment
39th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
338th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade
Naval Infantry of the Pacific Fleet
40th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade
155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade
72nd Coastal Missile Brigade
520th Coastal Missile Brigade
75th Coastal Missile Brigade
Airborne Forces
11th Guards Air Assault Brigade VDV (Major General Alexey Naumets , Colonel Denis Shishov, Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Denis Viktorovich Glebov , Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Kislyakov )
83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade VDV (Deputy Commander Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Vitaliy Slabtsov )
1428th Territorial Defense Motor Rifle Regiment
Western Military District (ZVO) (Commander: Lieutenant General Yevgeny Nikiforov, (formerly Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev ), (formerly Colonel General Alexander Lapin ) (replaced Lieutenant General Roman Berdnikov ) (replaced Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi ) (replaced Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlyov )
1st Guards Tank Army, WMD (Lieutenant General [dismissed]; unnamed deputy commander [dismissed])
60th Command Brigade
2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Smirnov – seriously wounded)
1st Guards Tank Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Denis Lapin)
1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Colonel Kharitonov – seriously wounded)
147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
1117th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
4th Guards Tank Division (Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov)
(S. I. Safonov)
13th Guards Tank Regiment
423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle Regiment
275th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
538th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
49th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Colonel Ivan Grishin )
47th Guards Tank Division
26th Tank Regiment
6th Engineer Regiment (Colonel Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nagamov )
27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergey Safonov)
69th Logistics Brigade
(Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Evseev )
6th Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolayevich Yershov [dismissed & arrested])
95th Command Brigade
25th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Sergei Maksimov)
9th Guards Artillery Brigade
5th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
26th Missile Brigade
132nd Signals Brigade
1486th Motor Rifle Regiment
20th Guards Combined Arms Army, WMD (Lieutenant General )
9th Guards Command Brigade
3rd Motor Rifle Division (Major General Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Avdeyev)
(Colonel Igor Nikolaev )
362nd Motor Rifle Regiment
752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
99th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
144th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov previously Major General Vitaly Sleptsov)
(Colonel Alexander Bespalov )
(Colonel I.A. Danshin)
488th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment
856th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
236th Guards Artillery Brigade
448th Rocket Brigade (Colonel Dmitri Nikolaevich Martynov)
232nd Rocket Artillery Brigade
3rd Army Corps
6th Motor Rifle Division
54th Motor Rifle Regiment
57th Motor Rifle Regiment
10th Tank Regiment
27th Artillery Brigade
72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
«Alga» battalion (Colonel Yaga - captured)
«Molot» battalion
11th Army Corps, from the Baltic Fleet (Lieutenant General Andrey Ruzinsky)
18th Guards Motor Rifle Division
79th Motor Rifle Regiment
275th Motor Rifle Regiment
280th Motor Rifle Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
22nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
7th Motor Rifle Regiment
9th Motor Rifle Regiment
244th Artillery Brigade
7th Coastal Missile Brigade
14th Army Corps, from the Northern Fleet (Lieutenant-General Dmitry Krayev)
80th Arctic Motor Rifle Brigade
200th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, (Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo)
382nd Rocket Artillery Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Dinar Khametov )
61st Red Banner Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Kirill Nikolaevich Nikulin), from the Northern Fleet
874th Naval Infantry Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov )
336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel (Guards) Igor N. Kalmykov, Chief of Staff Colonel Ruslan Shirin ), from the Baltic Fleet
45th Svir High-Powered Rocket Artillery Brigade
Russian Airborne Forces (VDV)
45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (Colonel Vadim Pankov )
76th Guards Air Assault Division VDV
104th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Dosyagaev )
234th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Afonin )
VDV (Lieutenant Colonel Georgy Khudik )
1140th Guards Artillery Regiment VDV
4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
98th Guards Airborne Division VDV (Guards Colonel Viktor Igoryevich Gunaza [dismissed by end of March], Head of Communications Colonel Alexey Smirnov )
217th Guards Airborne Regiment VDV (Guards Lt. Colonel Viktor Vasilyevich Droedov)
331st Guards Airborne Regiment VDV (Colonel Sergei Sukharev , Deputy Commander Lt. Colonel Ivan Pozdeev , Chief of Staff Lt. Colonel Igor Zharov ) (seriously depleted in fighting near Kyiv)
1065th Guards Artillery Regiment VDV
5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
106th Guards Airborne Division VDV (Guards Colonel Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Selivyorstov , Deputy Commander Colonel Sergey Igorevich Kuzminov , Deputy Armaments Commander Maxim Kudrin )
51st Guards Airborne Regiment VDV
137th Guards Airborne Regiment VDV (Colonel Andrey Vasilyev , Deputy Commander Lt. Colonel Pavel Krivov )
1182 Guards Artillery Regiment VDV
1st Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
Aerospace Forces
6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Oleg Makovetsky)
332nd Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24)
105th Guards Composite Aviation Division
14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-30) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Pazinich )
47th Composite Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-34)
159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35)
790th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35)
11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Vladimir Kravchenko)
112th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24) (Colonel Vitaly Tabachnikov )
319th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-24)
303rd Composite Aviation Division
18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-25)
23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-35S)
Southern Group of Forces (YuVO) (Commander: Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev ) (formerly General of Army Sergei Surovikin), (Deputy Commander: Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov )
8th Guards Combined Arms Army, SMD (Lieutenant General Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev, Deputy Commander Major General Esedulla Abachev (replacing Major General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov )
20th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksei Gorobets ) (Deputy Commander Colonel Sergey Nikolaevich Kens ) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Yurievich Avramchenko ) (Deputy Commander Colonel Kanat Mukatov )
33rd Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov )
255th Motor Rifle Regiment
944th Self Propelled Artillery Regiment
358th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
150th Motor Rifle Division (Major General Oleg Mityaev )
102nd Motor Rifle Regiment
103rd Motor Rifle Regiment
68th Tank Regiment
163rd Guards Tank Regiment
381st Self Propelled Artillery Regiment
933rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
238th Artillery Brigade
47th Missile Brigade
78th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
1st Donetsk Army Corps (see below)
2nd Guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps (see below)
49th Combined Arms Army, SMD (Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev )
7th Military Base
34th Separate Motor Rifle (Mountain) Brigade
205th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
1st Guards Rocket Brigade
90th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
439th Rocket Artillery Brigade
227th Artillery Brigade (Colonel Aleksei Viktorovich Repin)
32nd Engineer-Sapper Regiment
58th Guards Combined Arms Army (Lieutenant General Denis Lyamin, formerly Major General Ivan Popov, formerly Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko)
4th Guards Base (Lt Colonel Alexander Olegovich Koshel, head of the information and psychological counteraction, captured)
19th Motor Rifle Division (Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov)
429th Motor Rifle Regiment
292nd Self-propelled Artillery Regiment
42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
70th Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Bezlyudko)
71st Motor Rifle Regiment
291st Motor Rifle Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Dibir Dibirov )
78th Motor Rifle Regiment Chechen "Sever-Akhmat" (see above)
50th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
100th Reconnaissance Brigade
136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Colonel Roman Demurchiev)
1429th Motor Rifle Regiment
12th Missile Brigade
291st Artillery Brigade
12th Guards Engineering Brigade (Central Military District, Colonel Sergei Porokhnya , formerly Colonel Denis Kozlov )
29th Railway Brigade
Airborne Forces
7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division VDV, Colonel Aleksandr Kornev, reported as the command element of the Russian task force fighting in the Kherson Oblast on the Mykolaiv direction
56th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV
108th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Colonel Vitaly Vladimirovich Sukuev )
247th Guards Air Assault Regiment VDV (Colonel Konstantin Zizievsky )
1141st Artillery Regiment VDV
1537th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
3rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment VDV
Black Sea Fleet (Vice Admiral Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov replacing Admiral Igor Osipov, Deputy Commander Major General Dmitry Pyatunin replacing First Rank Captain Andrei Paliy )
Ships
30th Surface Ship Division
Cruiser Moskva
Project 11356 Guided Missile Frigates Admiral Essen , Admiral Grigorovich, Admiral Makarov
Project 1135 Guided Missile Frigates Ladny, Pytlivyy
41st Missile Boat Brigade
Project 1241 Missile ships - Tarantul-class corvette (5)
Project 2163 Missile ships - Buyan-class corvette (4)
4th Independent Submarine Brigade
Project 636.2 submarines Rostov na Donu (B-237) , 5 other submarines.
Project 877 submarine Alrosa (B-871)
197th Assault Ship Brigade
Project 1171 landing ships Orsk, Nikolai Filchenkov, Saratov (Captain 2nd rank Vladimir Khromchenkov )
Project 775 landing ships Caesar Kunikov (Captain 3rd rank Aleksandr Chirva ), Olenegorsky Gornyak , Minsk , One other landing ship.
184th Novorossiysk Coastal Defense Brigade
Project 1176 Ondatra-class landing craft D-106
Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft (deployed from the Caspian Flotilla)
Project 22160 Patrol Boats Vasily Bykov, Dmitri Rogachov, Pavel Derzhavin
388th Marine Reconnaissance Point/1229th Naval Intelligence Center
Project 02510 High-speed assault boat BK-16E
68th Coastal Defense Ship Brigade
Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat (Captain 2nd rank Alexander Bobrov )
Project 266M Natya-class minesweeper Ivan Golubets , 2 other Natya class minesweepers, 2 x Alexandrit-class minesweepers.
519th Separate Squadron
Project 18280 Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship Ivan Khurs
Auxiliaries
Project 22870 rescue tugs Vasily Bekh , Professor Nikolay Muru
Project 23120 transport/tug Vsevolod Bobrov
18th Combined Arms Army
22nd Army Corps - Black Sea Fleet (Major General Arkady Marzoev, removed April 2022, chief of staff Major General Nasbulin )
126th Guards Coastal Defense Brigade (Colonel Sergey Storozhenko)
127th Reconnaissance Brigade
291st Artillery Brigade
8th Separate Guards Artillery Regiment (from Black Sea Fleet)
15th Coastal Missile Brigade
103rd Logistics Brigade (Colonel Mikhail Ponomarev, removed April 2022)
177th Naval Infantry Regiment - from the Caspian Flotilla
388th Marine Reconnaissance Unit, from the Black Sea Fleet
810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade (Colonel Sergey Kens , formerly Colonel Alexei Sharov , Deputy Commander Colonel Aleksei Berngard)
854th Separate Coastal Missile Regiment
11th Coastal Missile Brigade
70th Motor Rifle Division
24th Motor Rifle Regiment
28th Motor Rifle Regiment
Aviation of the Black Sea Fleet (+attached Naval Aviation from elsewhere)
2nd Guards Naval Aviation Division
43rd Marine Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-30)
Aerospace Forces
4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Lieutenant General Nikolai Vasilyevich Gostev)
55th Independent Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-24)
1st Guards Composite Aviation Division (Major General Tagir Gadzhiyev)
3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-27, Sukhoi Su-57) (Colonel Anatoly Stasyukevich )
31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-30) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Khasanov )
559th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-34)
4th Composite Aviation Division
960th Assault Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-25)
27th Composite Aviation Division
37th Composite Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-25)
38th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Sukhoi Su-27)
39th Guards Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-28, Mil Mi35, Ka-52) (Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Igorevich Pakholsky )
Storm-Z penal military units (Commander: Yevgeny Burdinsky) - as of September 25, 2023 "primarily active and mostly unsuccessful along the Donetsk City-Avdiivka frontline and on the Luhansk-Kharkiv Oblast front. [ISW]"
Rosgvardiya
OMON
SOBR
(Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin)
Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia (Major General Denis Sinenkov)
1st Donetsk Army Corps (Lieutenant General Roman Kutuzov ) (part of Russian armed forces from 31 December 2022) (under command of 8th Combined Arms Army of Southern Military District)
Republican Guard
Sparta Battalion (Yaroslav Shkurgan , formerly Vladimir Zhoga )
Somalia Battalion (Timur Kurilkin)
1453rd Regiment
1439th Regiment
9th Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade
Pyatnashka Battalion
14th Guards Artillery «Kalmius» Brigade
23rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
1454th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
103rd Motor Rifle Regiment
105th Motor Rifle Regiment
107th Motor Rifle Regiment
109th Motor Rifle Regiment
113rd Motor Rifle Regiment
115th Motor Rifle Regiment
95th Motor Rifle Regiment
125th Motor Rifle Regiment
127th Motor Rifle Regiment
(Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik')
Luhansk People's Republic People's Militia
2nd Guards Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps (part of Russian armed forces from 31 December 2022) (under command of 8th Combined Arms Army of Southern Military District)
Prizrak Brigade (Yuri Shevchenko)
(Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov )
6th Cossack Regiment
Cossack battalions (Mikhail Kishchik , Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Col. Alexander Kalnitsky )
127th Motorised Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Vladimirovich Panasyura )
202nd Motor Rifle Regiment
204th Motor Rifle Regiment
208th "Cossack" Motor Rifle Regiment
254th Motor Rifle Regiment
Ukrainian forces
(President: Volodymyr Zelenskyy)
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (Interior Minister: Ihor Klymenko)
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: )
Ukrainian Sea Guard
National Guard of Ukraine (Commander: General Oleksandr Pivnenko)
4th Rapid Reaction Brigade
12th Azov Assault Brigade (Commander: Nikita Nadtochiy)
2nd Special Operations Battalion Donbas (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Polishchuk)
Special Tasks Patrol Police
Dnipro-1 Regiment
Sich Battalion
National Police of Ukraine (Chief: Police General 2nd Rank Ihor Klymenko)
Liut Brigade
Rapid Operational Response Unit
Security Service of Ukraine (Head of the Security Service of Ukraine: Brigadier General Vasyl Malyuk)
Alpha Group
Irregular civilian volunteers
Paramilitary groups
Russian Volunteer Corps (Commander: Denis Kapustin)
Ukrainian People's Self-Defence
Volunteer NGOS
Aerorozvidka (Commander: Inna Honchar)
Partisans
Yellow Ribbon
Popular Resistance of Ukraine
Berdiansk Partisan Army
Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (Minister of Defence Rustem Umierov)
Chief Directorate of Intelligence (Major General Kyrylo Budanov)
Kraken Regiment (Commander: Konstantin V. Nemichev)
Ukrainian Armed Forces (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces: General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Lieutenant General Yevhen Moisiuk)
Ukrainian General Staff (Chief of the General Staff: Lieutenant General Serhiy Shaptala)
101st Brigade for the Protection of the General Staff (Commander: Colonel Mykola Shvets)
Ukrainian Ground Forces (Commander of the Ground Forces: Lieutenant General Oleksandr Syrskyi)
Ukrainian Armored Forces
Ukrainian Rocket and Artillery Forces (Commander: Colonel Andriy Kolennikov)
Ukrainian Mechanised Forces
Ukrainian Army Aviation
Ukrainian Marine Corps (Commander: Lieutenant General )
Ukrainian Navy (Commander of the Naval Forces: Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa)
Ukrainian Naval Aviation (Commander: Colonel Oleh Zahurskyi, Deputy commander: Colonel Ihor Bedzai )
Ukrainian Air Force (Commander of the Air Force: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk)
Ukrainian Air Assault Forces (Commander of the Air Assault Forces: Major General )
Special Operations Forces (Commander of the Special Operations Forces: Brigadier General Viktor Khorenko)
Territorial Defense Forces (Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces: Major General Ihor Tantsyura)
(MU А0135), Kyiv, (Commander of JOC: Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev)
(Commander of the JFO: Major-General Eduard Moskalyov)
Ukrainian Ground Forces
Operational Command North (Commander: Major General Oleksandr Lokota)
1st Tank Brigade (Commander: Colonel Ihor Shpak)
1st Special Purpose Brigade (Commander: Colonel Oleg Uminskyi)
3rd Separate Assault Brigade
4th Tank Brigade
26th Artillery Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Andranyk Hasparyan)
27th Rocket Artillery Brigade
30th Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Ihor Dovhan)
31st Mechanized Brigade
47th Mechanized Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Sak)
58th Motorised Brigade
72nd Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Ivan Vinnik)
Operational Command West (Commander: Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavlyuk)
10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Commander: Colonel )
14th Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Oleksandr Zhakun)
24th Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Anatoly Shevchenko)
44th Artillery Brigade
53rd Mechanised Brigade
24th Assault Battalion
68th Jager Brigade (Commander: Colonel Yuriy Belyakov)
128th Mountain Assault Brigade (Commander: Colonel Dmytro Lysyuk)
Operational Command East (Commander: Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev)
17th Tank Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Tarnavskiy)
42nd Mechanized Brigade
54th Mechanised Brigade
55th Artillery Brigade (Commander: Colonel Roman Kachur)
92nd Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Pavlo Fedosenko)
22nd Motorised Infantry Battalion
93rd Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Vladislav Klochkov)
107th Rocket Artillery Brigade
Operational Command South (Commander: Major General Andriy Kovalchuk, Chief of Staff: Brigadier General Mykhailo Drapaty, Deputy commander: Brigadier General Andriy Hnatov)
5th Tank Brigade
28th Mechanised Brigade (Colonel Vitalii Huliaiev )
40th Artillery Brigade
56th Motorised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Serhii Sirchenko)
57th Motorised Brigade
59th Motorised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Vadym Sukharevsky)
60th Mechanized Brigade
Separate Presidential Brigade (Commander: Colonel Pavlo Hora)
Kakhovka operational group
Khortytsia operational-strategic group (Commander: Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi)
3rd Tank Brigade
19th Missile Brigade (Commander: Colonel )
42nd Mechanised Brigade
43rd Artillery Brigade (Commander: Colonel )
49th Infantry Battalion
63rd Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Oleksandr Marushchak)
67th Mechanised Brigade (Commander: )
98th Infantry Battalion
110th Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Mykola Chumak)
115th Mechanised Brigade (Commander: Colonel Ihor Ivanov)
116th Mechanized Brigade
117th Mechanized Brigade
142nd Rifle Brigade
214th Rifle Battalion
Independent formations
Skala Battalion (Commander: Major Yuriy Harkaviy)
Polish Volunteer Corps
Sheikh Mansur Battalion (Commander: Muslim Cheberloyevsky)
Georgian Legion (Commander: Mamuka Mamulashvili)
Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment (Commander: Dzianis Prokharaŭ)
Belarusian Volunteer Corps
Terror Battalion
Ukrainian Marine Corps forces
35th Marine Brigade
36th Marine Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Sikoza)
37th Marine Brigade
Ukrainian Navy forces
Sloviansk
Donbas
Ukrainian Naval Aviation Forces
(Commander: Colonel Ilya Oleynikov)
Ukrainian Air Forces
7th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Commander: Colonel Serhiy Blyzniuk)
40th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Commander: Colonel Volodymyr Kravchenko)
114th Tactical Aviation Brigade
299th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Yastrebov)
Ukrainian Anti-Aircraft Defense Rocket Forces
160th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Mykola Oleshiuk)
Ukrainian Air Assault Forces
25th Airborne Brigade (Commander: Colonel Yuriy Sodol)
46th Airmobile Brigade (Commander: Colonel Valeriy Skred)
71st Jaeger Brigade
77th Airmobile Brigade
79th Air Assault Brigade (Commander: Colonel Oleksiy Shandr)
80th Air Assault Brigade (Commander: Colonel Volodymyr Shvorak)
81st Airmobile Brigade (Commander: Colonel Yevhen Moisiuk)
82nd Air Assault Brigade (Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Pavlo Rozlach)
95th Air Assault Brigade
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces
1st Special Purpose Detachment
3rd Separate Special Purpose Regiment
Ukrainian Territorial Defense forces
101st Territorial Defense Brigade
102nd Territorial Defense Brigade
103rd Territorial Defense Brigade
105th Territorial Defense Brigade
106th Territorial Defense Brigade
107th Territorial Defense Brigade
109th Territorial Defense Brigade
112th Territorial Defense Brigade
113th Territorial Defense Brigade
114th Territorial Defense Brigade
115th Territorial Defense Brigade
118th Territorial Defense Brigade
126th Territorial Defense Brigade
220th Battalion
129th Territorial Defense Brigade
130th Territorial Defense Battalion
227th Territorial Defense Battalion
241st Territorial Defense Brigade
Independent formations
International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine (Commander: Colonel Ruslan Miroshnichenko)
Freedom of Russia Legion
Pahonia Regiment
Separate Special Purpose Battalion (Commander Hadzji-Murad Zumso, Deputy commander Khavazhi Amaev)
Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion (Commander: )
Krym Battalion (Commander: )
Ukrainian Volunteer Army (Commander: Dmytro Yarosh)
Hospitallers Medical Battalion (Commander: Yana Zinkevych)
Norman Brigade
Resistance Committee
See also
Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Combatants of the war in Donbas
List of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
List of equipment of the Russian Ground Forces
List of equipment used by Russian separatist forces of the war in Donbas
List of orders of battle
List of Russian generals killed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
List of Russo-Ukrainian conflict military equipment
List of ship losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Notes
References
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine